• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Fork oil leak

M

mikedbike2002

Husqvarna
B Class
My 2006 Husky SMR510 is leaking fork oil from the junction of the fork tube & the bottm bracket that mounts the caliper & axle. Anyone run into this before & does anyone know a fix. It s leaking 360 degrees around the red area in the photo. HELP,HELP!fork leak.jpg
 
Wow, thats pretty rare as far as I have seen. But, believe it or not, the stanchion tubes are threaded into the foot and usually bonded with RED Loctite (or similar). Get the stanchion nice and clean so you can get some good grip on it (rubber gloves might help too) and give it a twist to see if you can get it to move. If you can, it would be wise to pull the forks apart and re-do that joint (or have it done). If it doesn't twist, could be a bad or missing seal in the foot (or even a cracked stanchion) all of which will require heat and torque to remove the foot to repair.
 
It could be leaking there, but more likely its leaking from the seal, running down the tube where you cant see it and resting on that spot. If im wrong, your 1 in a million.

If im right, pull down the wiper, clean the seal with a business card and pack between the seal and wiper with grease and put it back together. Push down on the forks a buncha times cause the grease will track on the tubes for a bit and clean it off.
 
Wrong! No seal leak!I removed the fork tube from the bike & took it completely apart. I took the bottom off by removing the small allen bolt that keeps the fork tube from turning.Gently heated up the lower bracket as it was in the vise & then unscrewd the fork tube. Wired brushed all threads, cleaned both up with carb cleaner. Then put a ton of Super Glue on the threads,screwed it back together & let it sit over night. In the morning reassembled the fork & put back on the bike. NO MORE LEAKY!!!
JasonfromMN said:
It could be leaking there, but more likely its leaking from the seal, running down the tube where you cant see it and resting on that spot. If im wrong, your 1 in a million.

If im right, pull down the wiper, clean the seal with a business card and pack between the seal and wiper with grease and put it back together. Push down on the forks a buncha times cause the grease will track on the tubes for a bit and clean it off.
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